{"id":72299,"date":"2026-09-08T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/carly-pearce-wishes-shed-canceled-one-show-she-was-too-drunk\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:03:28","slug":"carly-pearce-wishes-shed-canceled-one-show-she-was-too-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/carly-pearce-wishes-shed-canceled-one-show-she-was-too-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Pearce Wishes She&#8217;d Canceled One Show \u2014 She Was Too Drunk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>You can&#8217;t say <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/carly-pearce\" target=\"_blank\">Carly Pearce<\/a> isn&#8217;t an &#8220;Honest Woman&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>The singer recently sat down with\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nJhFKLm4SKY&amp;t=310s\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a><\/em> for an on-camera game of &#8220;Sip or Spill,&#8221; where she had to either answer questions or take a drink.\u00a0Even for fans who know her for her honest songwriting, Pearce got surprisingly candid.<\/p>\n<p>The only\u00a0questions that seemed to be truly off-limits\u00a0were ones that would have forced Pearce to air out another person&#8217;s secrets. She pled the fifth once when asked to\u00a0describe her craziest night out with <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/kelsea-ballerini\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsea Ballerini<\/a>, and again when asked to name\u00a0which ex was mean to her dog.<\/p>\n<p>But Pearce didn&#8217;t mind digging up some of her own most embarrassing moments. When a question about whether she&#8217;d ever\u00a0been too drunk to play a show came up, the singer was ready with an answer.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Has Carly Pearce Ever Canceled a Show Because She Was Too Drunk to Sing?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Technically, no, she&#8217;s never canceled. However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was one that I should have,&#8221; Pearce admits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know exactly the show,&#8221; she goes on to say. &#8220;If you were at my show on the\u00a0<em>29<\/em>\u00a0Tour a few years ago in D.C., I over-served myself, and I was like, &#8216;Uh oh, this is not good.&#8217; But I made it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>READ MORE<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/country-stars-who-canceled-tours-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artists Who Canceled Multiple Shows \u2014 Or Even Whole Tours! \u2014 in 2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pearce played a\u00a0<em>29<\/em> tour stop at a venue called The Hamilton in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20, 2021. If that&#8217;s the show she&#8217;s talking about, then the singer&#8217;s in luck: Video from that event is so sparse, we weren&#8217;t able to find any on social media.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an open secret that sometimes, show cancellations happen because the artist accidentally got too inebriated to perform. Normally, however, they&#8217;re not quite so forthcoming about it.<\/p>\n<p>Fans wouldn&#8217;t typically know the difference between a cancellation due to inebriation versus one due to illness \u2014 that is, unless the drinking got so problematic, it was a chronic problem, like with <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/george-jones\" target=\"_blank\">George &#8220;No Show&#8221; Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s cases like Bailey Zimmerman, who said he\u00a0was too sick to play a May 2026 show \u2014 but later that summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/bailey-zimmerman-felony-charges-drunk-canceled-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">property damage charges that were filed and then dropped<\/a> against the singer alleged he&#8217;d been drunk that day.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Carly Pearce Reveals Which Song She Wishes She&#8217;d Never Released<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Elsewhere in her\u00a0<em>Entertainment Tonight<\/em> interview, Pearce dropped some juicy details on another topic: She named the song she wishes she could wipe from her catalog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Finish Your Sentences&#8217; with <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/michael-ray\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Ray<\/a>,&#8221; she deadpanned, when asked which song she wishes she never released. &#8220;That didn&#8217;t age well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>READ MORE<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/shocking-country-music-splits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrity Breakups That Left Fans Stunned<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pearce and Ray, of course, were married for eight short months between 2019 and 2020. Their divorce was widely-publicized, and Pearce&#8217;s\u00a0<em>29: Written in Stone<\/em> album was largely inspired by that breakup.<\/p>\n<p>Carly Pearce released her new album,\u00a0<em>Honest Woman<\/em>, in late August. The project features tracks including &#8220;Happy for Myself,&#8221; &#8220;You Can Have Him,&#8221; &#8220;Dream Come True&#8221; and\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/riley-green\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Green<\/a> duet, &#8220;If I Don&#8217;t Leave I&#8217;m Gonna Stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">20 Shocking Country Celebrity Breakups<\/h2>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/billydukes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=76&#038;gver=10&#038;bid=204&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DGbJ4PR9JZzdxdLXzJnfIG9ZgkXSFQNevIcIY&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/carly-pearce-show-should-have-canceled-drunk\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t say Carly Pearce isn&#8217;t an &#8220;Honest Woman&#8221;! 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